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Time for Paper Lanterns
SIZE: 14,8 cm x 42 cm
PAPER: ARCHES GRAIN FINE 300g/m²
PAPER: ARCHES GRAIN FINE 300g/m²
COLOURS: Daniel Smith and Mijello Watercolors
2024 © ISABELLA KRAMER
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Autumn is near and the time for paper lanterns walking is here.
To outwit the darkness that creeps across the country earlier and earlier in the autumn, children make lanterns with colorful luminous paper pictures or hollow out pumpkin and sugar beet heads and parade through the streets with them. Parading through the dimly dark or foggy streets with a brightly shining moon, a shining sun, a happy animal face or a monster-faced lantern is fun.
In some areas, the 'lantern parade' begins as early as September, and reaches its peak in the first days of November and on St. Martin's Day. Everywhere you see bright strings of lights parade through the streets in the evening. It looks beautiful. It helps us forget the darkness a little, and we look forward to the pre-Christmas period with its mysteries and celebrations.
from about ca. 1851
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Autumn is near and the time for paper lanterns walking i.s here.
Autumn is near and the time for paper lanterns walking is here.
